Honk if you don’t like government shutdowns. (Another one might be looming over the nation’s budget.)
Losing federal services is bad. Using the budget as a bargaining chip is worse. But destroying U.S. democracy against the wishes of the majority of Americans? That would be the most terrible of all.
The switch to full-out authoritarianism is seemingly racing along. Unelected wunderkind Elon Musk and his young techies possibly now have your Social Security number and your medical history.
Musk has President Donald Trump’s nod to wreck government agencies that have helped millions of people (and in some cases were investigating Musk’s business practices). That’s wildly illegal. It’s not merely unorthodox. And it’s not happening because of a sudden crisis of the national debt, immigration, the energy supply or your gender identity. Those prefabricated emergencies exist only to serve Trump world.
Should Congress think long and hard before voting for a funding bill/debt relief measure that allows Musk to go on running rampant? Trump has lost government shutdown fights before. Members of Congress take oaths to defend the Constitution against all enemies. They should do what they were elected to do. Contact your legislator about it.
Jon Rutter
Lancaster
